San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

No prospect OF any Increase In British
grain quotations.
Six deaths and seven new cases OF
eholers at Malta.
Mexico unvails the statue OF the last
Aztec emperor.
| The g. A. X has increased its MEM
bership l2,000 since June LIST.
Grover and wife will attend centennial
at Philadelphia.
Cashier Of National bank, Sumpter, s.
c., absconds with $4,000.
| A Sherman widow receives a 81. 900. =
600 legacy for herself and daughters.
Heavy rains flood the City Of Mexico,
and the shops are being pumped out.
The Sunday law cases In Laredo have
all been dismissed; defective papers.
Work has commenced on the Laredo
smelter. and the city Is full OF strangers.
Sloan, police clerk, Pittsburg. Pa,
shot and killed by Paddy McGrsw.
Liverpool and London Irishmen pro-
test against proolaiming the league.
The English steamer Madrid for on
don, given up as lost with % persons.
The Ghilzsi rebellion has collapsed
and the rebels are scattered.
IihCt utultb hul
OF disrespect for the Berlin treaty.
John Furlong, Palestine, shoots his
nephew, installing him for burglar.
w. X. Maxwell, assistant secretary Of
the !. & e. N, dies at Palestine, aged 81.
Senior Salamanca commission as
captain general OF Cuba, 10 annulled.
Pacific Steamship company Is reOr-
ganizing and resumes dividend pay
ments.
Twenty horses and 700 tons OF hay
burned In a Minnesota barn; lightning
struck.
A revival OF the old knOwnothing
party is In progress. POwderly Is one or
Its heads.
Young LeFOre, OF BeevIlle, accident
ally ebOt by his father, Ia 10 a critical
condition.
The Mallory line offers semI-weekly
ing tomorrow.
Mexioans retallate and release an
American deserter because Garcia is not
given up.
Melville and Lsbruyer fight duel at
Paris and both are wounded In the
lungs.
The Iowa republican convention will
suggest AllisOns' name for presidential
candidate.
The division In commons on Friday
over the league proclamation engrOsses
all attention.
Governor OF Pennsylvania issues a
proclamation asking the &C operation OF
the people in the forthcoming centen-
NAL.
Two drunken ferIymen on Browns
Vile ferry boat push a young lady into
water, and she narrowly escapes drown
ing.
s. M. TrumbUll, of Denison, Tex, ar
rested on suspicion of being Bryant B.
Crandall, charged with swindling east.
ern insurance companies by fraudulent
death. He claims it a case OF mistaken
identity.
The cattle Of the capitol syndicate
In the Panhandle are reported dying in
large numbers from lack OF water.
There have been no winds, the wind
mills have been idle, and the cattle
troughs are dry, though the wells them
selves contain plenty OF water. The
losses for this month alone are placed at
10000 head. Horse power for pumping
will be employed as soon as the ma
chimes, which have been shipped In large
numbers, reach the ranges.
GERMANY and Russia are negotiating
with reference to the occupation of Bull
garia by Russian troops Germany is
willing to permit the occupation, but
insists on restriction of the number Of
troops and time OF occupation being
definitely settled. The car wants free
permission without specified restraints.
Bismark generally knows how much
rope to grant the great northern bear,
and he ties knot right there and brings
him up at a round turn.
Gov. Jeremiah Rusk, OF Wisconsin, is
getting close toward the sixties, stall
wart, pleasant faced and big boned, with
muscles like steel. and hands and feet
that need special sizes to cover them.
He used to be stage driver in his early
days, and has not lost his love for good
horse, nor lessened IN his enthusiasm
over rafting race and an exciting
finish.